| ID | 058935 |
| Title Proper | Labor policy and the secend generation of economic reform in India |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Jenkins, Rob |
| Publication | Oct 2004. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This paper advances three inter-linked arguments about the NDA government’s performance on labor reform. First, like its predecessors, the NDA government has continued to “reform by stealth,” facilitating backdoor policy changes rather than effecting them through overt decision-making. This has involved, among other things, relying on state-level leaders in India’s federal system to negotiate awkward political dilemmas. Second, though the NDA avoided directly reforming core labor legislation, it nevertheless helped to nudge labor reform from the narrow confines of elite politics onto the terrain of mass politics – an important aspect of the transition from first- to second-generation reform. Third, on the other key indicator of this transition – the building (or resuscitation) of institutions – there has been little progress. Indeed, the institutions necessary to manage the transition to a new labor-relations regime have been actively undermined, not least as a result of the Machiavellian politics involved in the process of reforming by stealth |
| `In' analytical Note | India Review Vol. 3, No.4; Oct 2004: p 333-363 |
| Journal Source | India Review Vol: 3 No 4 |
| Key Words | Economic Reform ; India-Economy ; Labor Policy ; India ; International Relations-India |